APC secretariat in Okrika, Rivers state bombed [Pix]

Unknown men earlier today January 11th bombed the APC secretariat in Abam Ama in Okrika Local government area in Rivers state, leaving three party members seriously injured. They are currently on admission at an undisclosed hospital.

 Confirming the attack, the local government party chairman, Christian Asifamaka said the attack on the three storey building was carried out at about 3am today...

"The All Progressives Congress in Okrika views this latest attack as a deliberate provocation by our opponents, the People’s Democratic Party to draw the APC into a battle that would destabilize our beloved local government area. This is unfortunate and the APC in Okrika would not allow Okrika to become a hotbed of crises as the PDP would wish.” he told newsmen.

Okrika is the local government of the first lady Dame Patience Jonathan

Source: LindaIkeji

Rapper who cut P*nis off

NaijaHomeNewz---- The rapper who mutilated himself and then jumped from a Los Angeles building has broken his silence about what happened.

Andre Johnson was severely injured in April after he severed his penis and leaped from the second level of a building in North Hollywood. He told E! that he was under the influence of drugs at the time but insisted that he knew what he was doing.

"Yes, I was using drugs that night, but I was in complete control," he said. "I cut it off because that was the root of all my problems. My solution to the problem was the realization that sex is for mortals, and I am a god. ...Those kinds of activities got me into trouble, and I came here to be a god."Johnson performs under the name Christ Bearer and his group Northstar was affiliated with the Wu-Tang Clan. Johnson said he hadn't spoken out on the incident before because "People perceived me as crazy, so I never wanted to speak wholeheartedly on the matter."

Doctors weren't able to reattach the penis, he told E!.

He said he had been seeing a psychologist after he was discharged but that he has been deemed okay. He said he was thankful to God when he awoke in the hospital still alive.

"I didn't want to kill myself," Johnson said. "That was just my response to the demons. They were doing their best to get to me, but being alive solidified my thoughts. ...I'm alive, penis or no penis."\

#RebornFoundation.

Fear spreads in Ikeja as oba passes on and tradition requires seven human heads

PANIC has spread around the Lagos State capital Ikeja as the funeral of the traditional ruler the Olu of Ikeja looms and local tradition requires that seven human heads are buried along with the remains of the oba to serve him in the afterlife.

 Yesterday, Oba Rauf Adeniyi Aremu Matemi, the Olu of Ikeja passed away in his palace after a brief illness and plans for his funeral are currently being put together. All businesses and shops in Ikeja Local Government Area were closed down yesterday as a mark of respect for the departed monarch.

At the oba's palace yesterday, traditional figures, market women and members of the Hausa community were all present top pay their respects. Some rituals were also being performed in his honour at the palace, with some traditional chiefs wearing the traditional white wrappers as demanded by custom.


One senior chief said: "There are some rituals that needed to be performed when an oba dies. For instance, we don’t announce the death of a king on the pages of newspapers."


Human rights bodies have however, warned local Ikeja residents  to be wary of their movements, especially at night. Those considered most vulnerable are people living in the Anifowose, Obafemi Awolowo Way, Alausa, Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ipodo, Computer Village, Oba Akran and Ikeja GRA areas.

Among other things, the traditional Oro cult will be coming out every night to pay homage until the monarch is buried. Residents are being advised to get back home early and stay indoors if they live in these vicinities.

HOME CALL: Football ICON and Real Madrid Legent Alfredo Di Stefano Passes Away

Alfredo Di Stefano, the player Real Madrid has hailed as being the most important component in its mid-20th century ascent to becoming a global powerhouse, has died. He was 88.
The club said in a statement that Di Stefano, its honorary president, died on Monday afternoon at Gregorio Maranon hospital, two days after a heart attack.
Di Stefano turned 88 on Friday. The following day, he had a heart attack on a Madrid street near the club's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. Paramedics were able to resuscitate him after 18 minutes, but he spent the following days in a coma.
Renowned for his speed, versatility and strategic grasp of the game, he helped Madrid attain five straight European Champions Cups and was voted European player of the year in 1957 and '59.
In a career spanning five clubs in three countries - Argentina, Colombia and Spain - from 1945-1966, Di Stefano scored 789 goals in 1,090 matches. In the process he claimed top-scorer status once in the Argentine league, twice in Colombia's league and five times in Spain.

However, as FIFA acknowledges on its official website, "statistics will show that Alfredo Di Stefano is one of the world's greatest ever goal scorers, but the bare facts only tell part of the story."
"I'm very saddened by the news of the death of Alfredo Di Stefano," said Sepp Blatter, president of the sport's international governing body. "He was the most complete player I've ever seen. He was also my favorite player."
Those who knew him recall a straight-talking character who believed success on the field came through physical effort and dedication.
"I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat," he said. His modesty in the face of overwhelming sporting success won him the admiration of many.
"I think he was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, football player ever," England great Bobby Charlton said.
Born July 4, 1926, in the Barracas suburb of Buenos Aires, near the port where British sailors introduced football to Argentina, Di Stefano learned the game while playing free-for-all soccer in what he called "the academy of the streets."
"In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other," he said.
"Pope Francis and I went to the same school," Di Stefano said when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pontiff, adding the two likely played together as children.
Di Stefano's father, Alfredo, the son of an immigrant from the Italian island of Capri, was a loyal fan of River Plate. De Stefano's mother, Eulalia Laulhe Gilmont, was of French and Irish ancestry.
Having trialed successfully for River Plate, he turned professional in 1945, joining Colombia's Millonarios six years later. He won six league titles for the two clubs.
His turn of speed soon had fans chanting, "Help, here comes the jet-propelled 'blonde arrow,'" ("Saeta Rubia," in Spanish) a nickname Di Stefano retained all his life.
He played in Spain for the first time in 1952 and dazzled the crowd at a tournament commemorating Real Madrid's 50th anniversary, a fateful encounter.
Barcelona signed Di Stefano in 1953 after agreeing a transfer with River Plate, but the move was thrown into doubt when Madrid also negotiated his transfer - with Millonarios.
Although the Spanish federation authorized Di Stefano to play half of his four-year contract with each club, Barcelona opted out, alleging pressure from the Madrid-based ruling military dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco.
In his first season Di Stefano helped Madrid win its second league title, ending a 21-year drought.
Within three years, he helped Madrid lift its first European Cup by scoring in a 4-3 win over France's Stade Reims.
The arrival at Madrid of Hungarian great Ferenc Puskas in 1958 led to an attacking partnership of dynamic effectiveness which allowed the club to retain the European title through to 1960, a record yet to be beaten.
Di Stefano's last final in 1960 at Glasgow saw possibly his finest match. Before 127,000 fans, he scored three times in Madrid's 7-3 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt.
The same year, he helped Madrid win the inaugural Intercontinental Cup between European and South American champions with a 5-1 aggregate victory over Uruguay's Penarol.
In his remaining four years at Madrid, Di Stefano helped his team lift a further four league titles.
He topped the Spanish league's scoring standings in five of his 11 seasons with Madrid. He scored 49 times in 58 European matches, a record in the competition that stood for more than four decades.
Di Stefano left Madrid in 1964 to join Barcelona-based Espanyol for a two-year spell before retiring at age 40.
"Football brought me so many beautiful moments. It built my life," said Di Stefano, who was also an Argentina and Spain international. But World Cup glory eluded him. Argentina didn't play in 1950 and '54, while Spain didn't qualify for Sweden in 1958. Di Stefano carried an injury to Chile 1962 and did not play. So, his only international success was a 1947 Copa America victory with Argentina.
In 1963, Di Stefano was held captive by a guerrilla group during Madrid's tour of Venezuela. He was taken at gunpoint from his hotel room by the publicity-seeking National Liberation Army Front and released unhurt two days later.
As a coach, he led Boca Juniors and River Plate to Argentine league titles, and won the European Cup Winners' Cup, the Spanish league title and the Copa del Rey with Valencia. He also managed Madrid between 1982 and 1984.
Madrid appointed Di Stefano honorary president in 2000, named its training complex stadium after him six years later and erected a statue in his honor in 2008.
A diabetic, Di Stefano fought ill-health in old age and underwent a quadruple bypass with a pacemaker implanted in December 2005 after a heart attack.
In May 2013 his children asked a court to rule him mentally incapable after he announced plans to marry a woman 50 years his junior.
"I don't care that my children are against it," Di Stefano, then 86, said of his plans to marry 36-year-old Gina Gonzalez.
His interest in football never diminished. At 86 he still maintained a regular column in Spanish sports newspaper Marca.
In it, he revealed that he had missed Pope Francis' appointment. "I must confess that while everyone else watched the white smoke live," he wrote. "I was, as always, watching a football game."

Students At Ajasin University Riot Over Their Colleague Killed By Hit-and-Run Driver [Pix]

A riot broke out in the early hours of today at Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko (AAUA) in Ondo State after a driver hit and killed a student of the institution.



The students were incensed on learning that a reckless and impatient driver, knocked down, Segun Adesuyan, a 300 level Microbiology student and fled the scene, leaving the deceased in a pool of blood.

Eyewitnesses said the culprit was driving a mini bus popularly called 'Agolo' when the tragic incident happened at the Ajax junction close to the school.



A student told a correspondent of SaharaReporters that the deceased student was rushing to a morning lecture when he fell prey to the hit-and-run driver.

As the sad news filtered through the campus, some students, especially those who knew the victim, gathered at the scene of his death to stage a protest. The students barricaded the roads leading to the main gate of the campus and chanted angry war songs.

The irate students demanded that residents of the community where the accident occurred should immediately identify the hit-and-run driver.

The students also blocked the gate to the university, disallowing passage to motorists.

SaharaReporters learned that some police officers were drafted to the scene from Ikare and Akungba Akoko Divisions to guard against any outbreak of violence in the town.



The heavily armed police officers shot sporadically into the air to scare away the rioting students. Six of the demonstrating students fainted when the police officers fired canisters of teargas at them, creating a tense situation.

The body of the deceased student has been deposited at Ikare Akoko Hospital morgue. A police source said the late student’s parents had been notified of the tragic event and were expected to arrive soon.



Our correspondent reported that all lectures and administrative activities at the institution had been suspended for today.

Meanwhile, the executive members of the Students Union Government have issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the community to produce the driver, believed to be from the immediate community where the accident occurred. Some students threatened that violence would erupt if the community failed to identify and hand over the reckless driver.

Boko Haram kills another 24 in fresh Borno attack cos of N250,000

No fewer than 24 people were reportedly killed yesterday in an attack carried out by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in Kamuyya village, Biu Local Government Area of Borno State.

Boko Haram militants have recently intensified bloody attacks in the rural areas as over 100 villagers have reportedly lost their lives within the last one week.

The latest incident occurred in the afternoon when dozens of the insurgents, armed with assault rifles and explosives invaded a weekly market in Kamuyya village, and killed 24 persons.

Residents said the insurgents had visited the town about two months ago and asked the village head to mobilise his subjects to contribute N250,000 for them to execute God’s work.

The villagers, most of them peasant farmers and petty traders, had only managed to raise N70,000, a situation which angered the insurgents.

They reportedly threatened to return and collect the balance, warning the community to either heed their demand within a stipulated period or face deadly attack.

A resident, Bukar Umar, said: “Actually, when they issued such threat, we all took it lightly and nobody bothered to make any extra effort to raise the amount they requested for.

“Maybe that was what ignited this bloody attack because we were unable to meet their demand.”

The attack

Umara said over 20 insurgents stormed the Kamuyya weekly market, when traders were conducting their businesses and opened fire into the crowd before setting shops and vehicles on fire.

According to him, “the militants, armed with sophisticated weapons, raided the area and proceeded to the major market. They began to shoot sporadicaally into the crowd, killing 24 people on the spot and burnt most of the shops in the market.”

He said the people were taken unawares as the town had not come under such heavy attacks for a long time.

He expressed dismay that innocent people were killed without the intervention of the security forces.

He said: “Throughout the onslaught, which lasted over five hours, there was no single security personnel to confront the invaders as they had a field day.

Food hunting

“The invaders snatched several vehicles and loaded them with bags of foodstuff before fleeing the area.

“They destroyed everything we have, carted away our foodstuff and burnt down the remaining ones.

“The most painful thing is that they did not spare even the fleeing residents as they trailed and killed anybody who attempted to escape.”

Another resident, who preferred anonymity, claimed that over 100 houses were burnt after the attackers killed 24 people, leaving several others wounded.

He decried absence of security operatives in the area, even as they alerted relevant authorities on the need to deploy troops to safeguard the community.

He said: “Immediately after the last week attack in Kimba village, where scores of people were murdered, we urged the security agents to deploy their personnel, but our appeal fell on deaf ears.”

The resident further explained that after wreaking havoc in market, the hoodlums proceeded to the main town and set houses and vehicles on fire.

“After the carnage in market, the militants moved into the main town as they set ablaze several houses and vehicles.”

Breaking News. Real Madrid Complete Decimal Dream.

Live in Lisbon. www.naijahomenewz.com

  Los Blancos finally ended their wait for La Decimal thanks to goals from Sergio Ramos, Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Christiano Ronaldo. 

Real Madrid have been crowned champions of Europe for a 10th time courtesy of a 4-1 win over city rivals Atletico on Saturday night.

Los Blancos looked set to succumb to Diego Godin's first-half header but Sergio Ramos levelled the game with just over 90 seocnds of normal time remaining.

Madrid then realised their Decima dream thanks to extra-time goals from Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The Spanish side won the first five editions of the European Cup, beating Stade de Reims in the inaugural final at the Parc des Princes in Paris in 1956.

However, a legendary line-up containing Alfredo di Stefano, Ferenc Puskas and Francisco Gento are best remembered for their era-defining 7-3 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt in Glasgow's Hampden Park in 1960.

Madrid lost two of the next four finals, to Benfica and Inter, but they racked up their sixth success in 1966 courtesy of a 2-1 win over Partizan in Brussels.

However, Los Blancos would not win another European title before the tournament became the Champions League, losing 1-0 by Liverpool in Paris in 1981.

However, the Santiago Bernabeu side brought an end to 32 years of disappointment when they upset Juventus 1-0 in Amsterdam in 1998.

Madrid triumphed again in 2000, beating Valencia 3-0 in the last all-Spanish final, and their eighth title followwed two years later when they defeated Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 thanks to sensational strike from Zinedine Zidane.

Los Blancos had not made the final since but they finally clinched 'La Decima' by overcoming Atletico in Lisbon.

BREAKING NEWS: Another bomb blast in Jos

" The bomb went off by 9:05pm about 20 feet away from a viewing
center where people were watching European Champions League
Final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.
Window pane of houses near the area shattered as a result of the impact of the blast. Eye witness told our reporter that the bomb
that exploded near Red Cross office close to Angwan Rogo killed the bomber as he was yet to get to the viewing center before it went off.
The scene of the blast is still burning as at the time of filing this report. Though angry youth initially stoned policemen who first got to the scene, STF officials have taken over the place."The blast was targeted at football fans watching the European Champions League final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid which eventually ended 4- 1in favor of real Madrid with Ramos,Bale,Marcelo,Ronaldo on the net for Real while Godin score a lone goal for Atletico Madrid.
The casualty figures could not be ascertained. www.naijahomenewz.com @rebornoutfit